Re: [RP] banishing and keypress?

[John Meacham]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:58:39AM -0400, Joshua Neuheisel wrote:
> Joe Corneli wrote:
> >I was thinking I would like to banish the mouse at every input,
> >going beyond what it says in the info page:
> >To do this, I think I would want to have _every_ key that sends input
> >to the underlying program be in the "top" keymap; compare the
> >`self-insert-command' function from Emacs.  Perhaps keypress should be
> >added to RP as a `self-insert-command' analogue (see email from Martin
> >circa April of this year).
> 
> This way lies pain and suffering; we should seek solutions other than RP 
> interpreting every key press...

You can use the XKeyboard extension (which every X server has) to
observe this sort of event without interuping the normal event flow. I
wrote a little utility that uses the extension for other things... I can
probably make it do what you want...

        John

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